How do I release my songs made on EngineEars to my public profile?

To showcase your completed projects on your artist profile, follow these steps

After completing your mixing or mastering project, you can highlight your new music to promote it with fans, and increase exposure by helping listeners to discover you and your songs!

When visitors view your public artist profile, they'll be able to explore and listen to your featured tracks that you've released. 

There are 2 options when releasing your completed songs to showcase on your Artist Profile:

• Release for Free: choose this option if you want to publish your song(s) onto your public Artist Profile for fans/visitors to listen for free.  
• Sell Direct: choose this option if you want to publish your song(s) onto your public Artist Profile for fans/visitors to purchase, listen, and/or download for a defined price.

You also get the opportunity to have your featured songs/catalog shown on the EngineEars.com homepage and official EngineEars socials (Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok) in our Made on EngineEars series.

Release for Free: steps to feature your songs 

1. Feature a Completed Project:

• • From your Bookings Tab, navigate to ANY completed project and click the ‘Publish this Project’ button.

2. Choose how you want to release

• Choose "Release for Free", then click "Next". 
  • Release for Free: choose this option if you want to publish your song(s) onto your public Artist Profile for fans/visitors to listen for free.  
  • Sell Direct: choose this option if you want to publish your song(s) onto your public Artist Profile for fans/visitors to purchase, listen, and/or download for a defined price.  

3. Enter Release Details:

• Enter the details for your release. Once you're done, click "Next".
  • Album Type: select Single, EP, or Album
  • Primary Genre: select the primary genre of your release
  • Secondary Genre (optional): select a sub genre for your release
  • Artist Name: your official artist name, stage name, or performing/touring name
  • Album Title: name of your single, EP, or album being released
  • Featured: turn this ON if you'd like this release to be prominently displayed on your public Artist Profile. Keep this OFF if you'd prefer this release to be shown in your Catalog section of your public Artist Profile, or you have another release to be displayed prominently instead.
  • Language: the primary language of the title of your album/single release.
  • Parental Advisory: select whether any songs in your release contain explicit language ("explicit"), explicit language but censored/bleeped/modified for the radio ("clean"), or "neither" (has never contained explicit language nor censored/bleeped language to be clean).
  • Release Date: Choose the exact date/time (in your local timezone) for when this release is to be publicly shown and available on your Artist Profile. Select the current date/time if you prefer the release to be published Live immediately once submitted. Select a date/time in the future if you prefer the release to be Scheduled to be published live at a later date/time after submission.
  • End Release: Turn this ON if you want this release to be automatically hidden from your public Artist Profile.  Keep this OFF if you want your release to be shown on your public Artist Profile indefinitely.
  • Description: Add a description to accompany your release so that fans/visitors can learn about your artistic motivations, inspirations, and what this music release is about. 
  • Cover Art: Upload a high-resolution quality image or photo of the cover art for your single/EP/Album release. Only .png and .jpg file formats are accepted. Uploaded images must be at least 1500 pixels X 1500 pixels in dimension. (NOTE: if you don't add cover art, your publicly featured songs won't be displayed on Made on EngineEars)

4. Select Songs:

• • Select Track: Browse through your completed projects to select one or more song(s) from any projects you have completed on the EngineEars platform. The final asset files and song details from the completed project will be submitted for the release.

• • Once you're done selecting tracks to your release, click "Next" to proceed.

 

5. Edit Track Details (Optional):

• • You now have the chance to specify the song details for each track selected to be included in your release.

Click the Edit button on each row to view and edit the track's details. You have the option to either enter or update the details for each song included in the release. Click "Save Song" after editing the details for a song. 

• Song Title: add/modify the name of your song
• Artist Name: your official artist name, stage name, or performing/touring name specified in the Release Details (step 1). To change this, click the "Back" button to edit your Release Details.
• Featured Artists (optional): enter the names of any featured artists on this song separated by a comma if more than one. 
• Primary Genre: select the primary genre of this song (if different than the release)
• Secondary Genre (optional): select a sub genre for this song (if different than the release)
• Language: the primary language of the lyrics in this song (if different than the release). If this song is an instrumental and contains no vocal lyrics, choose "ZXX (No Language)". 
• Parental Advisory: select whether this song contains explicit language ("explicit"), explicit language but censored/bleeped/modified for the radio ("clean"), or "neither" (has never contained explicit language nor censored/bleeped language to be clean).

Once you're done, click "Next" to proceed to the next step.

 

6. Review and Accept Disclaimers 

• • Disclaimers: Carefully read, review and agree to the terms in order to submit your release. If you decline, your release is saved as a 'draft' but is not submitted for release to your Artist Profile. You must accept all the terms in order to proceed with release submission.
• Once submitted, you will receive a confirmation that your release has been uploaded, verified, and successfully submitted.
  
  

Click the "Go to your Release" button. You will be able to monitor the status of your release as well as view/edit details for your submitted release on this Release Details page. 

If you need to make changes, you can do so here:

• Edit Release Details: allows you to view/edit the overall details about your release
• Edit (on each song row): allows you to view/edit details for each song within your release 

Once you are done making changes, click "Save" to apply the changes to your release.

 

7. Public Preview of a Release

Click the profile dropdown menu, then click "My Profile" to visit your Artist Profile.

Upon arriving on your Artist Profile, you will be in "Edit Mode". With "Edit Mode" toggled ON, you will be able to see your successfully submitted releases in the "Releases" tab. 

• If your release is marked as Featured, it will be highlighted at the top of your profile page, displaying prominently for the public to view. It will also be shown in the Catalog section below. You can feature one release at a time at the top of your profile page.
• Any additional public releases will appear underneath in the Catalog section, where you can display as many additional releases as you would like.
• To switch the release that you feature on top of your profile, edit the details of a featured release and turn OFF the "Featured" setting, than goto the release details of another release and turn ON the "Featured" setting. 

• If the release has a future start date/time, it will have a release status labeled with the scheduled start Date.
• If the release has a past start date/time, it will have a release status labeled as Live Now.
• If a release has a past end date/time, it will have a release status labeled as Not Live.

 

To preview how releases appear on your public Artist Profile to visiting fans, click "Edit Mode" toggle to OFF so that you switch to "Public View" ON. This allows you to view your Artist Profile from the perspective of fans and listeners. 

• Scheduled future releases will not appear to fans until their start date/time
• Live Now releases will appear to fans until their end date/time (if specified), otherwise they will appear indefinitely.
• Not Live releases will not appear to fans since their specified end date/time has passed, or the release has been manually ended/hidden from view.

 

8. Share Your Release:

To promote your music, click the ‘Share Release’ button to copy the URL link to your profile page. You can then post this link on social media, allowing visitors to view and listen to your featured and cataloged tracks directly on your profile.

• When visitors access your profile, they’ll be able to view and listen to your featured release for free and additional public for free releases displayed on your profile page. Fans/visitors can click the Play button on any release for free song for instant playback and hear your music.